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Federal law and interagency policy create a multi-step framework for conducts arrests: unaccompanied children are, by statute, supposed to be transferred to ’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) und...
The report concluded that the , through its , had serious procedural failures that left vulnerable to trafficking, exploitation and other abuse when placed with sponsors, and it directed multiple fede...
of and involving unaccompanied children exists but is fragmented: statutory custody and child-protection responsibilities rest with HHS/ORR under the , while and Congress provide varying layers of scr...
Unaccompanied children arriving in the United States are granted a distinct legal category and a set of procedural and substantive protections under U.S. law — principally the Trafficking Victims Prot...